Dual booters ~ How much space to each partition?

[sports fan Matt]

For those that dual boot ~ How much space to allow your windows partition right now I’m at 75 gigs for windows and 180 for linux

[ajgreeny]

There is no simple answer to this!

Do you share data files, ie, your documents, spreadsheets, media files etc etc, between the systems or is that not needed?

I have very little idea how much space a Windows OS needs these days except that it is a lot more than the Ubuntu OS will need but that assumes you keep the OS partitions separate from your data files so tell us as much as possible about what you want.

[Rubi1200]

I think it really depends on your needs.

At one point, on another laptop, I had this:

Windows: 80GB

Ubuntu: 80GB

Test Partition: 80GB

Centuries ago I had another laptop with 4 partitions split more or less evenly but don't recall the exact sizes.

However, that was with Windows XP and I am fairly certain it did not need as much space as current Windows installs.

[sports fan Matt]

So right now I have 75 GB for Windows and 180 for Linux. In the future, when I upgrade that will become more of course. I honestly don’t have really important files kept on the computer

[TheFu]

35 and 131.

I don't dual boot, but I do run MS-Windows inside a VM, so that eats space.